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'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security

Posted by michael on from the lives-in-the-attic-and-eats-fish-heads dept.

BarryNorton writes "The BBC are currently reporting on research from Cranfield University on the ability of unscrupulous third parties to spoof wireless networking clients into believing they are connected to a 'valid base station' and compromising their passwords for Internet banking etc. Of course the rest of the connection through the Internet, even from a trusted router, is insecure in any case and such sites should be using end-to-end security like SSL. Is there, therefore, anything (other than the cute name 'evil twin') to this story?"

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  1. Surprising? by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is it really that surprising? Hardly. We had it coming. The lesson is: don't ignore security professionals when they say that your products are inherently flawed, but we knew that already, right? Right?

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    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."